{"id":1050,"date":"2005-06-07T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2005-06-07T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T14:32:57","slug":"intel-and-pre-tiger-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/intel-and-pre-tiger-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel and Pre-Tiger Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nIt sounds like Universal Binaries won&rsquo;t really be universal. The <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/MacOSX\/Conceptual\/universal_binary\/universal_binary.pdf\">programming guidelines<\/a> strongly suggest that GCC 4 is required to build Universal Binaries. However, applications compiled with Xcode and GCC 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocoabuilder.com\/archive\/message\/cocoa\/2005\/5\/2\/134561\">only run<\/a> on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later (if C++ is used) or 10.3 and later (if plain C is used). Will developers have to ship two separate .app files? There are still <em>lots<\/em> of Panther, and even Jaguar users.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nAlso, how will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2005\/06\/06\/powerpcintel\/index.php\">Intel&rsquo;s compilers<\/a> (which are apparently much better than GCC) factor in?\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like Universal Binaries won&rsquo;t really be universal. The programming guidelines strongly suggest that GCC 4 is required to build Universal Binaries. However, applications compiled with Xcode and GCC 4 only run on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later (if C++ is used) or 10.3 and later (if plain C is used). Will developers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}